Early this evening, in another example that typifies Miami as another
Banana Republic run by overlords, a Cuban, Gerardo Hernandez was
sentenced to life in prison for spying, not on the United States
Government, but on tens of Cuban counterrevolutionary groups based in
Miami, New Jersey, California and other gutters around the world.

This event, which would otherwise gotten the attention of few, in the
aftermath of the despicable events of September 11, the Afghanistan
tragedy and the threat of extending this prescription to another 50
countries around the world, may be worth exploring.

Two big questions came out immediately following the collapse of the
twin towers:

a.- How could our sophisticated Intelligence Services not have picked
up on what these terrorists were planning and avert the most devastating
attack inflicted on this nation?

b.- Why are we so hated?

I will refer only to the first question. Since May 19th, 1959, with
the creation of the first counterrevolutionary group in Miami which was
headed by Rafael Diaz Balart, the father of US Congressman Diaz Balart,
Cuba has not had a second of peace.

The burning of industries, terrorist bombing, economic and biological
warfare, invasions, sabotage, airline and maritime hijackings, murders,
blowing up of airline in mid flight, slaughtering of Cubans working
abroad etc., are only a brief sampling of what these individuals have
done to their country of origin, all in the name of Democracy, Free
Enterprise, Freedom of Religion, and all sorts of other gimmicks that
they are instructed to create every so often.

From the day of the inception of the first counterrevolutionary group
until today - 41 years after - each and every one of them has been hand
picked, structured, financed, trained, directed and ordered into battle
by the Central Intelligence Agency, thus their illegitimate nature and
lack of authority among the Cuban people and around the world.

Never before in the convulsive 500 years of Cuban history, has a
group of people born on its soil, been so despicable, so unprincipled
and have denied so grossly everything that was said and done by our
forefathers.

How could the country with one of the richest history of struggle,
sacrifice, principles in this region, have sunk so low and betrayed the
vision of the fathers of the nation?

One needs to reflect on how it all started. On January 1st 1959, the
first horde of crooks to abandon Cuba were all the highest ranking
officials in the Batista regime, who in four short years had depleted
the treasury.

With the advancing Revolutionary Army, Batista and his henchmen did
not had time to do the last minute money transfer, and like typical bank
robbers, they stuffed luggage with millions of dollars and arrived at
the tarmack in Miami. Rather than being hauled off to jail as common
thieves, they all moved into Coral Gables as the most respectable
members of that community.

One of them, the Colonel head of the Bayamo region, when he received
the news that his boss, Batista, had fled the country, gathered his
belongings and fled to a waiting airplane at Bayamo's airport. At that
last minute he asked his wife for the luggage with the money and when
she indicated she had forgotten it home, he made the fateful mistake of
leaving his entourage there and returning home to pick up the loot. He
was caught by the advancing rebel forces, tried and sentenced to stand
before the Firing Squad. He was mourned extensively in media in the US.

The worst of Cuban society came in that first and subsequent flights
out of Cuba. Shortly after and in order to restore Democracy in Cuba,
the CIA created in Miami its largest station ever outside of its
headquarters and, with an endless budget, it carefully selected, once
again, this scourge, the future leaders of the new Cuba.

The Bay of Pigs, Operation Mangoose, tens of assassinations attempts
compiled by the Congressional Church Commission, the most stringent
economic blockade in the history of mankind, the first and subsequent biological
warfare in this hemisphere, which has devastated livestook, farming
and the lives of tens of thousands in Cuba, are only a fraction of what
the people of Cuba have endured.

Known Cubans who enlisted in the United States Armed Forces and were
trained in demolition, explosives, torture, and all sorts of unspeakable
professions, graduated with Masters degree and PhD in the art of
maiming, destroying, scorch land technique, which they have not been
remiss to impose on their country.

Well known and very respected assassins in that underworld are
revered and respected citizens in the Miami microcosmos, to whom the
highest members of the Religious community -Pastors, Ministers, Bishops-
pay their respects, sit side by side and hang-out with them.

Their unique print, audio and visual media control is so powerful,
that even the Miami Herald, the most powerful newspaper in the State of
Florida, panicks when certain people calls. They have been boycotted,
blackmailed, threatened and staff members driven out of town.

Their radio stations are like no other in the country. This means the
most frightening and devastating resources at their disposal. No
political figure, no educator, researcher, financier or ordinary citizen
is immune to their reach and destructive capabilities.

As a result of the transformation of the city of Miami, that prior to
the massive arrival of Cubans in the late 50's and early 60's was just a
beachtown for northerners during winter, this group of highly trained
crooks rapidly overwhelmed and controlled all aspects of city life,
using their experience accrued in Cuba.

While in Cuba, these personalities knew that the best job for any
friend of the president of the newly elected government was to be
designated administrator of the Havana Maritime Port. One year on the
job and you had made it for life. Now it is the Miami International
Airport that has taken its place.

Every concievable vice, every dirty trick, every bribing technique,
every corrupting method that existed then in Cuba is now perfected and
in place in Miami.

It is therefore no accident that, although Miami is classified as one
of the poorest county in the nation, it still boast the highest number
of public servants in jail, indicted, sought, or on parole.

Is it an accident that Miami has the highest number of
Medicare/Medicaid fraud in the nation?

It is an accident that the county of Miami-Dade has the largest
number of "Dead" Voters in the Nation?

Is it an accident that Miami is the largest port of entry of illegal
drugs in the Nation?

Is it also an accident that Miami-Dade has the highest percentage of
nepotism in the country?

These are just some of negative social and cultural result of a city
which has grown from a teratologic embryo that has metastasized across
south Florida.

How then would it be possible, in a city in which the Judge, Mayor,
Banker, University Dean etc., must first have the blessing of those
mentioned above in order to fill a vacancy, could they erect themselves
and pretend to be able to carry out a Fair and Just trial of men acussed
of spying on them?

Is it not standard procedure, when there are concerns with the
ability of a community to provide a fair and unbiased jury, to move the
case to another city as it has been with so many others cases?

Is this or not the same violent Miami that has fire bombed, shot,
driven people out of town or tried to kidnap a 6 year old Elian Gonzalez
in front of TV cameras, that we now expect to be trustworthy?

Is it this or another Miami, that has cursed, called horrible names
and has made afraid to walk the streets, a native of that city, who
until recent was our Attorney General, Ms Janet Reno?

Are we talking about the same city in which hundreds of natives of
this country -including President Clinton, President Carter, Nelson
Mandela, Jane Fonda, Jessie Jackson and so many others, feel unsafe and
unwanted?

That is what makes this trial a joke. During Apartheid in South
Africa, we all learned about these Kangaroo Courtroom. Now we have them
in south Florida.

But if this unspeakable action is left to stand, it will not only
tarnish once again the Miami-Dade county, it will extend its grime to
the Federal Government.

If we are all expected to accept the fact that it is punishable to
spy on known
terrorists, who until recently in 1999 led a string of bombings in
hotels in Cuba that caused the death of an Italian tourist and injured
many Cubans, including childrens, shouldn't someone admit complicity?

If we will ever accept that what was done by these individuals in
defense of their country is wrong, why then our outcry for poor national
intelligence?

Who can we trust in the future, when "Force" not
"Rightousness" is what prevails.

Many had hopes that the New Millenium would create a better world, in
which, justice, hope, love would prevail. The opposite is true. Mankind
is engaged in a dangerous and slippery slope, in which the final outcome
cannot be envisioned.

As a native of a country that has been under siege for too long,
I know of the heinous past, present, and future of its
victimizers, who while they were in power in Cuba and after arriving on
this shore, have done nothing more than decimate the Afro-American
community in Miami, just as they did to Blacks in Cuba - who were forced
to live like savages.

No matter who supports and provide the killing instruments to these
murderers, they will only be able to continue to inflict more pain and
suffering on their people, but they will NEVER prevail.

The road map that was left to the Cuban people since Hatuey and
Guarina, the indigenous people who preferred to be burnt alive rather
than capitulate to the Spanish thugs, or since Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
who preferred his son to be shot rather than betray his struggle for
independence, will not allow any decent Cuban, no matter his political,
social or religious differences with the present Government of Cuba, to
ever side with them.

These traitors who have never had the guts to fight for the things
they believe in, but as animal of prey, have waited in the dark and
ambushed the weak, the women and children, have really believed they are
"Freedom Fighters", as they were once were called by someone
who has since faded into oblivion.

Many more people than those have been sentenced to life in prison in
Miami, have suffered worst injustices in our history. But our people
have always been prepared to pay whatever price has been imposed on them
and our nation, as a lighting torch will prevail once again and remind
the world, what it takes to be a son of that country